Do you have an investment strategy? Making money without an investment strategy is like an offense in the NFL going to the line of scrimmage without a snap count. In every game, there are going to be seventy plays all started by the sound of ‘Hike!’ A...
Friends always ask, “Why are athletes so bad at money?” The truth is, people are bad at money. Athletes just have more of it to be bad with. I have so many stories of people, friends and family members, who were throwing money away and didn’t...
When you are successful, you want to give back to the people responsible for your success, but sometimes you have to say ‘no’ to family, even when it’s tough. I was recently talking to a friend — a phenomenal yogi, podcaster and public speaker. She turned...
There is nothing people talk about more and do less than budgeting. Nobody wants to hear about it, and I get that. Yet budgeting empowers the purchases you do make and brings satisfaction for the purchases you avoid. Budgeting gives you a whole new perspective on life...
As an athlete, I have focused on building almost every muscle in my body — but I had to teach myself to build my money-saving muscle. And out of all the workouts I have done, my money-saving muscle has benefited me the most. It opens doors....
When I was in the NFL, people asked me for money almost every day. Old friends, strangers, even family would pop out of the woodwork with their hands out. At first I wanted to help everyone, but after a while I smartened up and learned...
After 15 minutes of speaking to a group of youth for My Brother’s Keeper, talking about how to buy stocks and the wisdom of owning companies they use and like, one of the young men raised his hand. “So, can I buy stock?” he asks. Even...
I can count on two hands the number of NFL players I know who still have their money. According to Sports Illustrated,1 two years after retiring, three-quarters of NFL players are broke (or nearly), and five years after retiring, more than half of former NBA...